The blank screen or sheet. How to fill it? I confess, I don’t find writing easy. To get past this I have at times used dictation, so I’m just speaking rather than writing, and speaking is something I’m not bad at.
But… you still need the ideas. And I have them of course. The book isn’t starting from nowhere after all. But how to organise those ideas? What is the narrative I want to present, what is the flow I want to establish?
A mixture of speaking and writing, just getting the ideas down at first- it worked in the thesis and so I’m going to keep using that approach. The ideas sometimes emerge as I write, or better ways of organising them become clear as I try to build the flow.
And so this afternoon I type and talked to make some sort of start, and I put together an outline of the chapters. I just wanted to get some ideas down and set out an idea of how the work will move from idea to idea. I’ve already got colleagues who’ve agreed to read such drafts. You can download the outline from here, in case any of you readers want to leave comments. Such comments, whoever from, will help me take that start and make it better!
Public understanding of law 